Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...human body. Its lack causes mental retardation, stunted growth, early death. Now U.S. industry and Government scientists have developed an inexpensive food supplement rich in protein. It is a "flour" made by grinding up whole fish, and Interior Secretary Stewart Udall reports that it can restore balance to the diet at a daily cost of only half a cent per person. U.S. fisheries alone, he adds, can produce enough of the raw material to meet the needs of 300 million people...
...soapboxes sprouted on every corner. Chicago's radio station WGN set up the first nationwide radio hookup to cover the trial in Dayton's bell-towered, red brick courthouse. Bald-pated William Jennings Bryan, munching radishes by the sackful because he was on a diet, starred for the prosecution and sold Florida real estate on the side; Clarence Darrow, in a straw katy and snappy galluses, handled the defense with all the warmth of a cobra...
...stand in Viet Nam. In view of all this, many conservatives feared losses of as many as 40 seats in the 486-man Lower House. But when the votes were in, Liberal Democrats commanded 285 seats-seven more than they had held last December when Sato dissolved the Diet. Japan's second-ranking Socialists barely held their own level from the last House (141 seats). The burgeoning, Buddhist-backed Komeito Party-the "clean government" arm of the militant Soka Gakkai sect-captured 25 seats, emerging as a new force in Japanese politics, one with which the Liberal Democrats might...
...Peking-lining fanatic who is even farther to the left than Communist Party Leader Sanzo Nozaka, 74, who last year struck a course away from Peking and more toward Moscow. Toward the ever-growing center of Japanese politics stands the Social Democratic Party (with 30 seats in the Diet, third in the nation) and the newly arrived Komeito (25 seats...
...somewhat surprising that Royal Crown, riding on the success of its best-selling Diet-Rite Cola, wanted to merge at all. The main reason is that American can provide the capital and international marketing know-how that Royal Crown needs in overseas markets in order to keep pace with the leaders. Royal Crown, moreover, is no stranger to tobaccomen. To build up its sales efforts abroad last June, the company hired as president of its international division Morgan J. Cramer, former chairman of P. Lorillard...